Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49b0d45f9dcf152d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.7 KB Created: 2021-03-27 12:30:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 537918afa2214e968b89b6047d28a800 SHA-1: 249896675a614c14a12f36d2843b863f1aabf797 SHA-256: 49b0d45f9dcf152da4ec5f2ae0884bd00ec7361ec0508e90f402cd4a0d40f4ee
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a significant number of external links, with one heuristic specifically flagging it as a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Ielts speaking marking criteria pdf', suggesting a lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or content-farming scheme designed to distribute malicious or unwanted content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6622

Heuristics 4

  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
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